Join Becky Lyon, creator of Pow Wow Jackets, in an upcoming virtual workshop where you can create your own 'Pow Wow Jacket' adorned with ribbons. Pow Wow jackets are everyday streetwear that embody regalia that is worn at Powwows and are meant to be worn by anyone, every day. No experience is necessary, and all are welcome.

Workshop ticket includes FREE admission to our feature exhibitions That Which Sustains Us, A Seat at the Table, Neon Vancouver Ugly Vancouver, and c̓əsnaʔəm, the city before the city. Consider arriving early with your event ticket to view exhibits!

The Museum of Vancouver is open 7 days a week from 10am - 5pm with health and safety protocols to make sure your visit is safe and fun. Follow this short video to know what to expect before your next visit to MOV.

That Which Sustains Us is a long-term exhibition that explores the convergence of different knowledge traditions in the Vancouver area through an examination of people’s interactions with forests and their natural environment. Through the lenses of Land and Water, Food, Movement, Economy, and Home, this exhibition explores the idea that culture ultimately shapes how people choose to interact with the natural world. Teachings that embrace stewardship leave less obvious traces on the land, when compared to historical viewpoints that commodified “natural resources” like wood and promoted the clearing of land as a pre-requisite of “ownership”. 

Want to learn more about food, farming, and Indigenous culture?

Asparagus tells the large and small stories of how we can live sustainably, from an environmental, social, and cultural perspective. Read this recent article featuring conversations with Indigenous farmers and thinkers about their pursuit of “honorable harvests.” This August, Asparagus is offering a free giveaway, scroll down to "Did You Know" section to learn more about this great offer.

The Museum of Vancouver and the University of British Columbia proudly present A Seat at the Table: Chinese Immigration and British Columbia. This exhibition explores historical and contemporary stories of Chinese Canadians in BC and their struggles for belonging. It looks to food and restaurant culture as an entry point to feature stories that reveal the great diversity of immigrant experience and of the communities immigrants develop.

Have you already been to see A Seat at the Table at MOV? Take this survey and tell us about your experience for a chance to win free admission to MOV!

Sister exhibition at the Chinese Canadian Museum of BC on view at the Hon Hsing Building in Vancouver Chinatown, 27 E Pender Street! Learn More.

This micro-exhibition features over 20 objects recently acquired for the permanent collection at MOV. These acquisitions represent a wide range of COVID-19 moments and lived experiences.

 "Listen to Nigel" is one of the artifacts in this exhibition. Drawn by cartoonist Geoff Coates, this artwork was first published in Vancouver is Awesome. Vancouverite Eric Buchanan, hoping to raise awareness about physical distancing, approached Coates to get his permission to make posters using the image. Buchanan paid to have the posters printed and put them up himself...(Read more)

Free Giveaway from Asparagus

Our partners at Asparagus are offering a free issue to all of our newsletter subscribers. All you have to do to claim it is sign up for their email newsletter, and answer "MOV" to the question "Who suggested that you sign up?" If you sign up by August 31, you'll also be entered in their giveaway draw. This month's winner will receive: an Asparagus subscription for themselves or a friend, a pair of MOV tickets, Indigenous storybooks from Theytus Books, and some sweet sustainable Asparagus swag.

Join Pollinator Party to learn more about other pollinators like bats, butterflies, and even hummingbirds. On August 28th, Fraser River Discovery Centre invites you to celebrate the important work that pollinators do to help keep the Fraser Watershed healthy! Explore the different pollinators that live in the watershed, learn why they’re so important, and build your very own Bee House that you can take home afterwards!

Monsoon Festival of Performing Arts, a stable and professional platform on which South Asian artists are able to experiment and present their creative work, along with accessing opportunities to learn from some of the most accomplished artists in the industry. Join Monsoon Festival for an entire month of music and dance performances, panel discussions, a marketplace of visual art, dance classes, development workshops and more.

Premiering on August 12, Done/Undone is a feature film, shot in multiple spaces at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts. This film by Kate Besworth is inspired by a complex modern question: how well do Shakespeare’s plays stand the test of time – and should some of them not be staged anymore? This provocative and entertaining response, directed by Arthi Chandra, stars Charlie Gallant (Shakespeare in Love, 2019) and Harveen Sandhu (As You Like It, 2018). They bring multiple characters to life, including two battling scholars, a pair of actors in Hamlet, a theatre-going couple divided over Shakespeare’s appeal – and Shakespeare himself!

We acknowledge that MOV is located within the unceded, ancestral territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.